Ole Miss Recruitment

[Benzgirl]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Aren't a lot of schools (who are able to do so and don't have a ton of chapters) going from 4 to 3? My school went from 4-4-3-2 to 4-3-2 after I graduated. We used to have Open House - Philanthropy-House Tours-Preference. Now recruitment begins with Philanthropy Day.

Boy, did I get my a$$ chewed for bringing this up on Sunday. The school has only 5 chapters and they still have 4 rounds.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by Benzgirl

Boy, did I get my a$$ chewed for bringing this up on Sunday. The school has only 5 chapters and they still have 4 rounds.

Double posting because I didn't see your comment. What was the "a** chewing" reasoning?
My opinion: it's counterproductive to have that many rounds with that number of chapters. I guess schools have to do what's best for them, but really, cutting a round out hasn't affected retention or anything like that here. If anything, making it 3 rounds has helped it. And also, if you think about it, the round that we lost was that first day where the rounds were only 20 minutes each anyhow. It's not like we cut out, say, House Tours (45 minutes each) and we go straight from Philanthropy to Pref. It's a very beginning round.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Double posting because I didn't see your comment. What was the "a** chewing" reasoning?

Sounds like someone on Panhel in a decision making position had one too many people end up in her chapter that made them say "oy vey, I wish we'd had an extra round to get to know these girls."

[Benzgirl]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Double posting because I didn't see your comment. What was the "a** chewing" reasoning?
My opinion: it's counterproductive to have that many rounds with that number of chapters. I guess schools have to do what's best for them, but really, cutting a round out hasn't affected retention or anything like that here. If anything, making it 3 rounds has helped it. And also, if you think about it, the round that we lost was that first day where the rounds were only 20 minutes each anyhow. It's not like we cut out, say, House Tours (45 minutes each) and we go straight from Philanthropy to Pref. It's a very beginning round.

It was a long ramble from one particular advisor of another chapter
"We've always done it this way"
"It won't work any other way"
"BW isn't like any other college"
""If it ain't broke don't fix it"
"Too many girls drop out" (too many already drop out)
"It would never work"
"We would never get a chance to know the girls in just 3 rounds"
"I don't know how schools like OSU with 1000 girls going through do it" (um, OSU never had 1000 girls going through, it's deferred so you weed out a lot of the Grade Risks and know more of the girls, 80% of PNMs are from Ohio and someone in the house knows a majority of PNMS and WE ARE ORGANIZED)
(this was the point I really stopped listening to her ramble)

Basically, there was no reasoning to what she was saying and was appauled that I asked the question; she just didn't want to change. When she told me that the ONLY other college in the country that had a similar recruitment to BW was Akron ("oh, and maybe Ashland"), I nearly busted out laughing. You don't know how much I wanted to ask, so how many other colleges have you observed this? And, BW doesn't have House Tours because....no houses.

Personally, I think they need to go to deferred recruitment and do 3 rounds. BW is starting to get a larger number of Sophomores going through which tells you, they aren't ready to pledge when they begin college. If no chapters have reached total after formal, something is wrong with the system.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by Benzgirl

Personally, I think they need to go to deferred recruitment and do 3 rounds. BW is starting to get a larger number of Sophomores going through which tells you, they aren't ready to pledge when they begin college. If no chapters have reached total after formal, something is wrong with the system.

If FR in fall includes first semester freshmen I can kind of understand their reluctance to lessen the amount of time spent with the women; however, you're probably right in that those issues would be eliminated with deferred.